CTU and Z600

One thing I have not blogged about yet is that I’ve gotten my Sony Ericsson Z600 cell phone over a week ago. It is arguably the best cell phone I’ve had and I had a few (nine since 1992). Granted it is not the P900 but as cell phone goes Z600 is pretty much it.

And tonight I’ve found the coolest ringtone for my phone, 24 CTU. Now all of my normal incoming calls will trigger this ring unless I’ve specified a particular ringtone for a number (e.g. Leah has “Final Countdown”, and “Star Wars: Imperial March” for anyone from work).

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Squirrel at Union Square

I was at the Union Square at the end of a photo expedition with another photographer when I saw this squirrel playing with the fence. First, I had the wrong camera in my hand (it has colour film). The camera that had B&W film was in the bag. Then when I got it out I found that it had the wrong lens on the camera! Also, this camera didn’t have a flash attached to it.

So there I was trying to swap lens from one camera to another, attached a flash light to it, while running after the squirrel and tried to catch it at the right moment!

Not too bad a photo, considering the situation I found myself in.


Squirrel

By the way, thank you for the idea of this post Nick! I will definitely make this a regular thing.

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New game to play

On Google (or any other search engine). The game is called Google Whacking. Here is the description from the Feedback section of the New Scientist magazine:

It’s called Google whacking, and the craze has spread across the globe. The idea is that you put a pair of seemingly random words into the Google search box with the aim of producing only a single hit – a Google whack. Now, for bored biomed researchers everywhere, Mathew Smith and Christopher Morris of the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University have devised a purely scientific version.

To play the game, which they have called Pubmed Whack, you enter two search words on the main Pubmed search page (www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) with the aim of getting just one cited reference back. For example, “dendrimer endocytosis” is a Pubmed whack, as is “mitochondria daffodil”.

Perhaps the years working at New Scientist have affected Feedback’s brain, but we have tried this and found it strangely addictive, in a frustrating sort of way. To our chagrin, “neanderthal spacecraft” produced no citations at all, whereas “neanderthal computer” produced five. We’ve been at it for hours, and we are still desperately trying to get a whack.

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The Book Quiz

Courtesy of Michael at eclecticism.

Picture of I, Robot

You’re I, Robot!
by Isaac Asimov
While you have established a code of conduct for many generations to
follow, your demeanor is rather cold and calculating. Brought up to serve humans, you
have promised never to harm them, to follow orders, and to protect yourself. Living up
to this code has proved challenging and sometimes even drives you mad. If you were a
type of paper, you would be pulp.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

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